Game #12 AT San Diego Chargers Game Review

While it’s good to get a road win and move to 8-4, this game was very frustrating in that the score was a lot closer than it ever should have been. Some of that was the Falcons doing and there were a couple of very questionable calls resulting in turnovers that didn’t help matters. Fortunately, the team overcame all that and pulled this one out but missing a wide open Jenkins, White dropping an easy TD pass and the 4th and 1 at the end of the 1st half that wasn’t converted, that’s just far too many points to leave on the field.

Note: QB responsible sacks are those that he has at least 3 seconds and either chose to try to scramble or stayed in the pocket when the better decision would be to throw it away. Also includes those rushing attempts that go for 0 or negative yardage that for some reason are counted as a sack.

Defense:

Run defense: Only allowed 42 (the other 28 was on a fake punt) rushing yards. Great job.

Pass Defense: Very good day only allowing 149 yards. Only criticism would be that the RB and TE was often uncovered but that’s pretty standard for the Falcons.

Sacks (3): Biermann got his first sack (congrats!) and Babineaux got the second as well as splitting the third with Abraham.

Douglas had 3 punt return opportunities: 1. from the 18, muffed and recovered by SD 2. from the 22, 32 yards. 3. from the 28, fair catch. The muffed punt really hurt as it led to a TD and helped make the game closer than it should have ever been.

1. Cover the middle of the field better in pass coverage (especially Tight Ends). Maybe move Brooking to SLB and Boley to WLB as well as nickel LB?2. Eliminate 3rd and long conversions by opposition.3. Defensive consistency in the second half.